''A Sun That Never Sets'' is the seventh

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by American

post-metal Post-metal is a music genre rooted in heavy metal music, heavy metal but exploring approaches beyond metal conventions. It emerged in the 1990s with bands such as Neurosis (band), Neurosis and Godflesh, who transformed metal texture (music), te ...

band

Neurosis Neurosis (: neuroses) is a term mainly used today by followers of Freudian thinking to describe mental disorders caused by past anxiety, often that has been repressed. In recent history, the term has been used to refer to anxiety-related con ...

, released in 2001. The album was awarded #18 on

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's top 100 metal albums of the decade. The band later released a DVD of a full-length film, which the album accompanies.

Track listing

Personnel

Performance

Neurosis

* Scott Kelly – guitar, vocals *Noah Landis – keyboards, sampling, sound manipulation *

Jason Roeder Jason Roeder is a retired American drummer, formerly of the Oakland-based metal bands Neurosis and Sleep. He played in the hardcore punk band Violent Coercion with Scott Kelly and Dave Edwardson before the trio formed Neurosis in 1985. The gro ...

– drums *

Steve Von Till Stephen Francis Von Till Jr. is an American musician, best known as the guitarist of the metal band Neurosis (band), Neurosis, in which he also shared lead vocals with former member Scott Kelly (musician), Scott Kelly. Following Kelly's departu ...

– guitar, vocals *Dave Edwardson – bass, backing vocals

Additional personnel

*Kris Force – violin, viola

Production

*Chris Manfrin – assistant engineer *Greg Norman – assistant engineer *John Golden – mastering *

Steve Albini Steven Frank Albini (; July 22, 1962 – May 7, 2024) was an American musician and audio engineer. He founded and fronted the influential post-hardcore and noise rock bands Big Black (1981–1987), Rapeman (1987–1989) and Shellac (band), ...

– engineer, producer

References

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